Re: [PATCH RFC] try to create KBUILD_OUTPUT automatically

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Mon Oct 24 2011 - 12:56:21 EST


On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:12:29 EDT, Peter Foley said:
> This patch makes it possible to execute make O=work instead of
> mkdir work
> make O=work

The case can be made that this is a Bad Idea, because it means you can't catch
a typo in your O= setting. This is particularly bad when it silently fails to
update the stuff in out-dir because you did a 'make O=out-diir'.

So NACK on this, if anybody cares what I think... ;)

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